Physical Culture v05n01 1901-04.Physical Culture (D&M-IA)

APRIL, 1901

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eooCONTENTS...

IMPORTANOE OF VIRILE MANHOOD.—Great men all strongly
sexed. This virile strength necessary to success. No matter
what, may be your aim in life this power is needed. Nervous
power and sexual power the same.

CAUSES OF Loss OF MANHOOD е BROr ane of sex the real
cause. The curse of prudishness. Special chapters given to
main causes. z

MAsTURBATION.—Its frightful effects on mind and body.
Terrible crime of parents in ignoring the sexual instinct.
Causes insanity. Can its effects be eradicated ?

SEXUAL Excess.—Its destructive effect. Destroys energy.
ambition. Causes thousands of deaths from consumption an
other wasting diseases. Weakens digestive, muscular and vital
powers.

NIGHT LOSSES AND OTHER DRAINS ON VITAL POWER.—
Erroneous ideas in reference to this. Not always harmful.
Quacks and their prey. Complete instructions for determining
whether you are being injured by night losses. The remedy.

ToBACCO. lrs DESTRUCTIVE EFFEOT ON SEXUAL POWER
—Dulls the sensitiveness of the nerves. Destroys finer delicacy
of emotional nature. Sometimes direct cause of impotence.

STIMULANTS—ALCOHOL AND OTHERWISE—THEIR DESTRUC-
TIVE EFFECT.—Stimulants produces unnatural strength. Seri-
ous effects of alcohol on the nervous and vital system. How
the alcohol habit can be cured without suffering from an in-
tense craving for it. 2

ELECTRIC-BELT FAKE.—Absolutely valueless asa means of
cure. If they stimulate, impotence is only produced that much
quicker because of this false stimulation.

Promiscuous INTERCOURSE.—Nature does not sanction it.
ШШ unnatural and productive of serious results. Loathe-
some diseases that punish those who break these laws.

COMPLETE IMPOTENCE FROM OLD AGE AND OTHER CAUSES.
—Sexual power declines as does the nervous forces. No excuse
for impotence. Sexual power should last as long as life. A
complete recovery promised.

UNDEVELOPED OR WASTED ORGANS.—When caused by ex-
cess can usually be remedied. When the fault of nature a
remedy is also given.

VARICOCELE.—Cause and cure of this troublesome complaint.
Cure usually very simple. Operation unnecessary.

Is ABSOLUTE CONTINENCE HARMFUL?—This much-mooted
question discussed. Not natural for man to live alone, Age to
marry. Life as it is to-day aggravates abnormal sexual desires.
If possessed of all the superb power of fully developed man-
hood, marriage cannot be avoided.

WHY MARRIAGE SOMETIME WRECKS.—Marriage a physical
union. Deplorable physical condition of those who marry.
Female weakness great cause of marital miseries. Erroneous

idea of marital privileges. Marry a finely sexed woman or stay
single. Terrible tortures of marital miseries. Nothing quite
equal to them. Avoid corset wrecks.

SEXUAL ANNIHILATION oR STARVATION.—Sexual instinct
considered vulgar. Disastrous results of efforts to crush it.
First important duty is to be a man.

METHODS OF TREATMENT.—No drugs, tonics or any other
unnatural means prescribed. These methods founded on
natural даре and cannot ѓай. А cure can unquestionably be
promised.

SYSTEM OF EXERCISE FOR BUILDING SEXUAL POWERS.—
No-apparatus needed. Wonderful power in accellerating the
circulation to proper parts. The great influence of this.
Cleanses and strengthens all adjacent organs and muscles.
System of exercise carefully described and shown with twelve
illustrations.

SPECIAL COURSE or ExERcIsES.—An illustrated course
without apparatus to be added to the preceding course when
strength is gained.

DreT.—Its importance. Food to eat and to avoid. Power
of theimagination. Importance of waiting for an appetite.
Whole-wheat bread. White bread contains no nourishment.

cue anu of a clean skin. How the body cleans
itself. Friction bath. The great advantage of cold sitz baths.
If skin was varnished over death would ensue.

IMPORTANCE OF PURE AIR.—Pure air necessary to life.
Oxygen isfood. Cannot live without it for five minutes. Fear
of draughts. Effects of coddling. The benefits of air baths.

CONSTIPATION.—Aggravates all sexual troubles. Must be
remedied. Means of accomplishing this result that never fail.

MENTAL INFLUENCE.—Its great power and importance.
Morbid tendency of all suffering with this class of troubles.
Great benefits derived from cultivating cheerfulness. Make
yourself good company.

DISEASES OF MEN.—The loathesome character of some of
these complaints. Their destructive effects of general vigor.
Their cure by natural means.

GONORRHŒA AND STRICTURE.—The serious results that some-
time follow these diseases Lessens sexual power sometimes
during entire life. Affects the eyes. Usual treatment. The
latest rational treatment by natural means.

THE CHANKROID AND BuBos.—Is local in character. Terri-
ble results of this disease when improperly treated. Proper
treatment by natural methods.

CHANCRE AND SYPHILIS. — Tainted for life. Mercuriy
treatment worse than the syphilitic poison. Harder to eradi-
cate from the system. Natural treatment the only rational
remedy for this disease.

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SS CONTENTS:

Copyrighted, 1901, by PHYSICAL CULTURE PUBLISHING Co.

Our First Co-operative Health Home—By Bernarr Macfadden - - - 6
The Five-Cents-a-Day Experiment—By Bernarr Macfadden - - - 8
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6 PHYSICAL

CULTURE

OUR FIRST CO-OPERATIVE HEALTH HOME.

By Bernarr

CET the world move on. Let
true progress, which car-
ries with it the highest de-
velopment of the human
body, be allowed full sway.

We have been teaching
and preaching in the past
with all possible emphasis the powers of
natural means in treating and curing
diseases. Pages upon pages of arguments
and stories have been published with this
object in view. All this has no doubt
influenced many of our readers. Thou-
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praise, and. frequently admitting change
in their lives, influenced by our literature,
which has brought them back to health
and strength, and in many cases actually
saved their lives.

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greater efforts. It has no doubt done
much to bring about our latest offer, to
cure diseases free and to, encourage us in
the establishing of coóperative health
homes. Heretofore we have spent most
of our energies in talking and writing.
Now we intend to begin to act. We in-
tend to prove—as stated in a previous
issue—beyond all possible chance of refu-
tation the claims we have been making
allalong. We intend to prove how ridic-
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considered complicated and mysterious
by medical science. We intend to prove
that there is but one disease—impure
blood—and that the only remedy for this
disease is those means which will assist
in the elimination of impurities.

Man does not cure disease. Medical
science never furnished a single means
that assisted in the healing process. It
is the blood that accomplishes this. The
healing power is within the body itself,
and upon the purity of the blood depends
its efficiency.

We are able to announce that our first
health home is now ready to receive
guests. We sincerely hope that it wil!
be merely a start toward the estab-

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lishment of many others. We want every
human being in this country to be well
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all. Not one cent of profit from this or
any other health home in which we may
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who enters it. At no time will the
cost exceed $15 a week.

Every possible means of amusement
which requires the exercise of the muscles
will be encouraged.

A description of our methods at this
institution is hardly needful, as we simply
follow out the natural means which we
have recommended in every number of
this magazine since its first issue. Those
who are unable to exercise will of course
be treated by baths, wet packs, massage,
diet, etc. But in treating all diseased
conditions one paramount object should
always be kept in view: that is, the neces-
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of the patient as pleasant as possible.
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and we really and truly intend that this
institution shall initiate the policy of
making a place for curing diseases resound
with the sounds of joy and life that come
with fast-returning health.

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of our first patient. He arrived in New
York several days before our institu-
tion was ready to accommodate him.
He has been suffering from asthma for
eight years. He has tried every means
known to medical science, and has trav-
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to effect a cure, with the result that he
has gradually grown worse. His photo-
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Our first free patient. Faked for eight years by medical science. He has asthma. We intend to make
an athlete of him in from one to three months. Comparison pictures showing
features and giving name will appear in a future issue.

ical wreck, and the average reader who
gazes upon the outlines of this man's
physique may well be astounded when we
‘state that in one or two months we intend
that he shall recover permanent health
and from twenty to thirty pounds in
weight. He has objected to his person-
ality being made known until after we
have accomplished this, and in the next,
our succeeding, issue, we will present his
photograph showing his countenance, and
also a photograph of his condition when
cured. Не is а prominent man in Ohio,
- and many in his locality would recognize
him if we published his features. Sev-
eral other free patients, sufferers from
the various diseases announced in the
previous number, have also been accepted,
and their cases will be described in full
in later issues.

There is one matter in reference to this
first institution to which we would like

to eall the attention of our readers, and
that is, those who desire to go into this
work, who desire to spend their lives in
teaching and preaching the laws of health,
can have an opportunity here to learn
proper methods and gain health and
strength for themselves at the same time.
The writer believes that we will have
positions for teachers as fast as they can
perfect themselves, though they must
remember that each and every one who
desires to teach the simple laws of life
and health must be a representative of
the benefits of their own teachings.

They can enter our institution and
simply pay their share of the expenses,
the same as those desiring to cure diseased
conditions, and by taking up the study
of all the natural means in effecting a
cure, they should, in a few months, be
able to secure remunerative employ-
ment.

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THBORIVESGCENTSSA-DAWVCEXPERTMENT,
By Bernarr Macfadden.

IVE cents per day fcr food
seems a small amount to
live on, and in order to
exist under such circum-
stances one must certainly
be abstemious to an ex-

treme degree. For some time, however,
I have held the opinion that one could
live on very nearly this amount and still
thoroughly satisfy his appetite with foods
that perfectly nourish the body. In
order to prove this to my own and the
satisfaction of my readers I concluded to
make a personal experiment to determine
the influence of such a restricted diet
upon health and strength.

The result of this experiment has been
to a certain extent satisfactory. It has
taught me that the average person can
live on less per week than the average
man spends per day, without loss of
weight or strength.

I began my experiment with a fast of
two days, though taking my first meal on
the night'of the second day. This was
necessary in order to develop an appetite
‘for a diet of this rugged nature, and I
can assure the reader that my first meal
was heartily enjoyed. It consisted of red
kidney beans and rice, no butter or other
seasoning than salt being used. I con-
cluded that butter and sugar were too
expensive for one limited to five cents a
day with which to buy food. I ate two
meals a day right along, and varied my
diet as much as I could under the circum-
stances. In case I was not hungry at
one meal I would always fast until the
next meal, and usually & hearty appetite
was thus produced. My usual meal con-
sisted of about six ounces of peas or beans
and about two ounces of rice cooked
separately and then mixed and eaten to-
gether. This when cooked of course
increased greatly in bulk and weight.

The experiment was continued up to
the fifteenth day without any noticeable
change in weight or strength. My
weight, I believe, was one or two pounds
heavier at this time than when I began

the diet. One result I very clearly no-
ticed that may interest young lady
readers was my skin became much clearer
and smoother.

The total amount of food bought and
eaten during a period of fifteen days was
as follows:

1 lb. crushed oats, $0.03
Water cress, .05
3 lbs. white beans, .15
2 lbs. red kidney beans, .10
3 lbs. rice, .19
3 lbs. dried peas, 12
2 lbs. corn meal, .05
10 apples, .10
6 turnips, .05
Total, $0.84

This, as the reader will readily see, ex-
ceeded by only a fraction of a cent the
five-cent-a-day limit and did not allow
much variety.

After having continued the diet seven-
teen or eighteen days I began to tire of it
and a day's fast did not seem to make it
appetizing. As I was experimenting for
the purpose of proving that one could
live on a certain amount without loss of
weight or strength, and as I did not have
the leisure and advantages necessary in
order to satisfactorily vary the diet and
still continue it at the same price, I con-
cluded to base the experiment on a test

‘of fifteen days rather than a month.

I am satisfied that I could have thrived
on about the same amount through the
month if I had had the necessary tinie to
devote to working out the problem
necessary in the selection of a satisfactory
variety. Of course, one fact in con-
nection with this experiment should Le
taken into consideration, and that is I
was very closely occupied during this en-
tire time with confining mental work,
and was not able to take as much out-
door exercise as is my usual habit. The
probabilities are that I could have con-
tinued the same diet indefinitely if I had
been able to take sufficient exercise in the
open air.

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One lesson was taught me very em-
phatically in this experiment. All along
I have been of the opinion that foods
were cooked entirely too much, and that
they were subjected to a degree of heat
which lessens the delicacy of their flavor
and destroys a large amount of the
nourishment which they contain. 11014-
ing this view, I determined to have my
foods cook very slowly, and never allow

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sometimes allowed to simmer all night
or from morning until night. The result
of this cooking process was that these
foods not only tasted far more appetizing,
but I am satisfied furnished far more
digestible nourishment. When starting
the experiment I had expected to. use
some bread, but that which 1 procured
was not appetizing and seemed difficult
to digest, and I did not use it during the

them to actually come to a boil. The
peas and beans which I used were cooked
for several hours. In fact, they were

actual test. I tried bread with the other
foods after the fifteen days expired, but
the result of using it was not satisfactory.

ODINILELDER TO CARNEGIE.

Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE:

The writer has spent a thousand dollars in the past month searching for апа
preparing for use a health home, which is designed to accommodate the sick and
suffering and aid them toward health that can be secured through simple, natural
means on a co-operative basis. The sick man, the weak man, the human brother
who should expect sympathy and aid, has been the prey of his fellow men through
all ages. To-day he is the victim of druggists, physicians and sanitariums, because
he suffers from the faults of his environment. 1 expect to spend as much or more
each month for this purpose as long as my finances will permit. к

You are spending enormous sums in building and equipping libraries; you have
declared your intention of devoting a portion of your income to philanthropie
purposes. I suggest that you establish Carnegie health homes, resorts equipped
with all the hygienie and sanitary appliances, where the suffering may be assisted
back to a condition of health at a nominal and co-operative expense—a sharing plam.
Your books and piles of brick and mortar ean neither make joy nor banish sorrow;
the cup of health placed to the lips of one poor chronic who might be easily cured
if given a chance to live naturally would produce more joy than all the literature
ever piled together. Why not interest yourself in freeing the land from the grip of
weakness—devote your great influence to assisting those who need assistance? There
are hundreds of thousands of sufferers in this country, every one of whom could be
cured, without doubt, quickly and easily, if some mighty friend of the race arose
who made it possible to demonstrate on a gigantic scale the value of proper dieting,
sanitary surroundings and health-giving exercise.

We have established one co-operative health home near this city, and we have
accepted more than a dozen patients for treatment there at our expense. All others
who come are received and treated on the co-operative plan. The absolute cost of
food, assistants, etc., is rendered weekly, and each inmate is assessed pro rata. We
invite your attention to this work, and beg that you will think over our suggestion.
To us there have come from east and west, north and south, thousands of wails from
the stricken for such aid as we have arranged to give in a limited way, and the
harvest is ripe for philanthropy that will bless.

Respectfully yours,

(Reimar

10 PHYSICAL CULTURE
С ВОКЕ ОЖ VACCINE VIRUS."

Waar Ir Is AND How Іт Is OBTAINED.

INTERIOR OF A TENT ON A "VACCINE FARM," SHOWING SURGEONS AND ASSISTANTS AT WORK.

INOCULATING A YOUNG STEER IN ORDER TO OBTAIN “COWPOX” VIRUS.

A ** culture? of vaccine virus is obtained by the method shown in these pictures.
The animals are tied down, the hair is shaved off the hind portion of the belly, forty
to forty-eight inoculations are then introduced, and the animal turned loose. At
the expiration of a few days, when the **scabs" are beginning to heal up, the **cul-
ture” is ready to gather. The animals are caught, fastened, and each ‘‘scab” is
removed with pinchers. The ‘‘ pus” that is thus secured is what we know as pure
vaccine virus. Human beings are inoculated with this pus poison under the name
of vaccination.

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SMALLPOX.
By J. D; Jones, Jr.

HE dreaded plague has
again been epidemic
among us,and the just and
unjust were at the mercy
of the despotic health
officer. Backed up by
State. boards of health

and the laws created by them for their

own sustenance, we now are all subject
to the whims of these officials; and once
the notion enters the head of one of them
that an individual has smallpox, notwith-
standing the denials of half a dozen com-
petent physicians, and notwithstanding

that but a small minority are agreed as to,

the nature of the modern disease—the so-
called smallpox—and also disregarding
the'unsettled state of expert opinion, the
preponderance of which is against vacci-
nation, that individual is in for a dose of
filthy cow pus rubbed into his opened
blood-vessels, or at the slightest objec-
tion he goes to the pest-house.

Here we are, free American citizens,
subjected to the edicts of a pack of un-
scrupulous men who, in some manner or
other, secured diplomas as medical ex-
perts; but they would starve, probably,
in competition with the ordinary doctor
atslinging drugs, so they seek and find
a sinecure in politics.

This is not a vision of a disordered
mind, but the actual condition existing
to-day, that any one may know who reads.
These conditions have long been known
and argued by the medical profession,
and their journals teem with condemna-
tion of the system. But still they seem
bound not to let the publie into their
confidences and have these things
righted. Theirsacred ‘‘code of ethics ”
(а system, by the way, which would send
the lay reader in convulsions of mockery
and derision) does not allow them to dis-
cuss medical questions outside of their
own circles, and they dare not turn the
light upon health board fakes for fear
the public will see their other faults.

Until the general public take this in
hand, nothing will be done. The public,
however, will not touch it until it has
become so foul and obnoxious that they

can no longer breathe without stifling.
In the meantime, we must do all possible
to protect ourselves; and to our friends
who are battling for better conditions
and knowledge, which. will enable them
to sustain their own and their children’s
health, may the following be of benefit.

Smallpox is the filthiest of the filth

diseases. It is epidemic in winter, for
the well-known reason that then the blood
usually: is mud. Because then people
perspire less, eat more, bathe less, breathe
less pure air and breathe more foul air,
not only rebreathing their own exhala-
tions, but taking into their lungs and
blood the filth breathed out by others.
- The excessive waste matter and food
cannot all be expelled by the kidneys,
and great quantities must remain in the
body to decay, when it then is a poison.
It accumulates rapidly, and soon the
bloodis overburdened. The lungs throw
off foul gases. Try this experiment: as
soon as you have dressed in the morning,
step outside a few moments and breathe
fresh air; then return to your bedroom
and notice the odor. Do this before you
have ventilated the room. Those who do
not have the windows well opened all
night will be surprised at the foul air.
Very few can smell their own breaths or
body odors, and so most consider them-
selves exempt.

The lungs of every one are passing off
the gases which come from animal mat-
ter and food decaying in the blood. As
one breathes in the gas of another, it
mixes with his blood, and the combina-
tion often forms a virulent poison which
the body gets rid of in the quickest man-
ner—i.e., by the skin. Nature never
cares for appearances or refined methods;
the quickest means she employs.

Pimples, eruptions and pustules occur.
These are not the beginning of smallpox,
but the ending. Any one with rotten
enough blood will have smallpox, and
that without being within a thousand
miles of another case. Or a person with
thick, bad blood, by breathing the ex-
halations of another in like condition,
will most likeiy have his blood badly

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poisoned. Thus may one ‘‘catch” small-
pox from another who does not have it
nor was exposed to it.

This so-called contagion is more from
within than without. Blood which is
pure will not become diseased by any or-
dinary exposure or contact with con-
tagious diseases, or by breathing another's
breath. A large amount of filth must be
put into that blood before any disease is
produced. Filth may enter in two ways:
first, the common way, by daily accumu-
lations of waste matter which is hourly
produced in the body ; and, second, by in-
jection, as by vaccination, antitoxin or
other serum treatments.

Vaccine virus, by means of which the
trick is done, is the pus found under and
collected after pulling off the scabs of
inoculated animals. All these serums
are the matter found in the sores of in-
oculated cows, horses or other animals.
Oxygen is about the most powerful anti-
septic known, and itisfound in abundance,
ready for use, in fresh air.

Blood freely circulating, as by exercise,
will absorb much oxygen when it is at
hand, and will mix it in thoroughly with

its corpuscles. The oxygen will then
burn up the poisons, disinfecting the
blood, and on its next trip to the lungs,
leave the body with the poisonous gases
16 has made. Itis very plain to see that
by filling the blood with food and refus-
ing to let in oxygen, a rank fluid will be
produced. Then let any of the many
germs that live upon decayed matter find
entrance, and breeding will rapidly pro-
duce a poisoned condition, at which na-
ture rebels; the conflict istermed sickness.

Pure blood, with but a small per cent.
of excessive food and a large per cent. of
oxygen, free and fresh, is a powerful
scavenger, and all germs or bacilli that
may enter that blood will soon perish.

Witness the case of the doctor in the
West who does not believe in vaccination
or contagion; he rubbed the poisonous
pus of smallpox patients on his hands
and face, allowing it to remain, breathing
time and again the odors, but he did not
catch smallpox. It was very foolish,
however, for him to circulate among
others that evening at a party. Some
bad-blooded individual might have become
infected.

MEAL UT DIiscipers.

The editor of PHYSICAL CULTURE spoke last month of the advisability of organ-

izing health clubs throughout the country.

We have attempted to point out, from

time to time, the necessity for the people of America waking up to the importance
of this question of health. We have tried to tell them that the tremendous energies

wasted in effecting tariff and tax legislation are of all vanities the most useless.

have tried to preach the gospel
have preached, we believe, so suc-
ripe for the bands of determined,
en to begin to concentrate their

We present herewith fac-
to be worn by persons who would
Health Disciples. These buttons
at cost, postage and mailing
cents, or free with each yearly

We
of health and strength, and we
cessfully that now the time is
thinking, sensible men and wom-
influence and powers.

simile of button we have had made,
become affiliated with the order of
we will supply, on application,
added. One will be sent for five
subscription or renewal when so

designated. We will enroll the names of all such members for future reference,
and when the number enrolled becomes sufficiently large to make a national con-
federation of health societies feasible, we will aid in organization.

We respectfully suggest that where interest is sufficient it would be well to

organize local societies at once, to co-operate with toward national federation.

We

will supply buttons in quantities to such organizations at cost.

PHYSICAL CULTURE 18

QUACK MEDICINES.

(Selected from George Crabbe’s poem entitled “ Тһе Borough," written nearly 100 years ago.)

All so-called quacks are gamesters, and they play
With craft and skill to ruin and betray;
With monstrous promise they delude the mind,
And thrive on all that tortures human-kind.

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash,—
Tincture or syrup, lotion, drop or pill; `
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill,
And twenty names of cobblers turned to squires
Aid the bold language of these blushless liars.

* * * * * * * * *

How strange to add, in this nefarious trade,
That men of parts are dupes by dunces made:
That creatures nature meant should clean our streets
Have purchased lands and mansions, parks and seats:
Wretches with conscience so obtuse, they leave
Their untaught sons their parents to deceive;
And when they’re laid upon their dying bed,
No thought of murder comes into their head.

* * * * ж * * * *

And then in many a paper through the year,
Must cures and cases, oathes and proofs appear;
Men snatched from graves às they were dropping in,
Their Inngs coughed up, their bones pierced through their skin;
Their liver all one scirrhus, and the frame
Poisoned with all evils which they dare not name;
Men who spent all upon physicians’ fees,
Who never slept nor had a moment’s ease,
Are now as roaches sound, and all as brisk as bees.
* * * * ж ж ж ж ж

No class escapes them—from the poor man’s рау
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
See! those square patent bottles from the shop
Now decoration to the cupboard’s top;
And there a favorite hoard you'll find within ?
Companions meet! the julip and the gin.

* * * * * * * * *

Suppose the case surpasses human skill,

There comes a quack to flatter weakness still;

What greater evil can a flatterer do

Than from himself to take the sufferer’s view ?

To turn from sacred thoughts his reasoning powers,
And rob a sinner of his dying hours?

Yet this they dare, and, craving to the last,

In hope’s strong bondage hold their victim fast:
For soul or body no concern have they,

All their inquiry, ** Can the patient pay ? :

And will he swallow draughts until his dying day ?"

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ВЕМЕ М5 OF BICYCLE RIDING,
By J. R. Stevenson.

QUY the time the April issue of
PHYSICAL CULTURE gets
into the hands of its read-
ers the season for outdoor
exercises of all sorts will be
fairly commenced. When
the buds of spring begin
to show, whether the man or woman is à
physical culture devotee or not, there is
à desire to get out of doors and to purify
. the lungs, that have been struggling with
all sorts of poisons and impurities during
the forced semi-hibernation of the cold
months. It is an instinct that mankind
has,in common with other living creatures,
to escape from the hindering environment
that he has surrounded his life with, and
to breathe the air that smells of earth and
forests and streams and seas.

Of course every form of sport, of recre-
ation that takes the individual, weak or
strong, out of doors at this season bears
its measure of blessing. The wealthy in
their carriages, suffering from over-feed-
ing, over-clothing, and over-coddling
during the winter, loll in idleness and
feel in a slight measure the general bless-
ing that is showered uponall. But effort,
the thing that makes it of greatest value,
is wanting, and their rejuvenation is
slower, more uncertain. 'The man who
walks long and far, who climbs mountains,
plays golf or goes fishing, responds quick-
est. He loses his indigestion, his touch
of rheumatism, his indifference; and color
comes to his cheeks, strength to his mus-
cles, joy to his heart, for he grows well
and robust.

And here is where the advantage of
the bicycle comes into human life. One

can get out into the pure air amid con-
genial environment. It furnishes splendid
exercise for the muscular system. Andadd-
ed to this there is pleasure and mental ex-
hilaration in riding the noiseless steed that
so far overbalance the muscular demands
that there is danger in a majority of in-
stances of too much rather than too little
exercise. This is the season when this pop-
ular and very advantageous exercise flour-
ishes in its greatest degree, and it is timely
to point out the dangers of overdoing it,
quite as much as calling attention to the
good that bicycle exercise will produce.

The rider should carefully note his
powers, ride only far enough and fast
enough to bring on that exhilaration that
is produced by muscular exertion that 1s
pleasant. He should never ride until ex-
hausted, and should not attempt, without
being carefully trained, any of the phe-
nomenal long rides we hear of so often.
The ride should be at a moderate pace for
a sufficiently great distance to produce
the effects hinted at, and should be fol-
lowed, as every other exercise, by a
thorough rubbing down of the body and
a cold sponge bath. The rider should be
careful as to diet, too.

The tendency will be to overeat under
the influence of the stimulation. He
should always be careful not to completely
gratify the appetite excited by the exhil-
aration of these early spring rides.

The bicycle is one of the boons of the
century to woman. It has done more to
free her from the confines of restrictive
clothing than all the lectures ever did,
and it has also done much to increase the
strength of men.

SHORT RATIONS ROUT RHEUMATISM.
By C. M. Aley.

ҸӘ HE writer most heartily in-
dorses Prof. Macfadden's
claim respecting the mar-
velous benefits to be de-
rived from abstemious liv-
ing or absolute fasting in
special cases. He has had
abundant proof of its value personally

and in the experience of others. А re-
markable case is here given:

One of the most prominent business
men in this State was, in 1864, a sturdy,
strong young farmer in Illinois, where he
was just then making a start in life. The
only drawback to his well-being was the
fact that he was severely troubled with

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rheumatism. Along came the draft and,
despite his ailment, took him to the field
as a soldier.

Immediately on being mustered in his
regiment was stationed in a section of
our common country where food was con-
spicuous for its absence. They got so
little to eat that he says he was hungry
every minute of his life, the daily ration
for a month straight being absolutely no
more than six hard tack, one-third pint
of sugar and all the coffee they wanted
each day. Many of the men would, he
says, eat the day’s ration at a sitting.

At the end of a month the command
moved to another place, and here he had
an opportunity to weigh himself and see
how many pounds he had lost. To his
amazement he had actually gained and was
heavier than when he left home.

Now for the effect on his rheumatism,
which was so acute his friends at home
declared when he left he would never be
able to march or do soldier duty. Fol-
lowing his starving experience the regi-

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ment was subjected to along march. On
this march my friend tells me he walked
as much as thirty miles a day and carried
a load of accouterments, and at night
slept. on the ground in the open air, en-
during the varying exposure incident to
outdoor life, and yet not a twinge of
rheumatism was felt during the time,
nor did he have a return of this disease
until he returned home and again began
full feeding on the farm. 'Then his old
enemy speedily put in appearance and has
stayed steadily by him until this day.
When he related his experience—an in-
tensely interesting one—we said to him
we were astonished that he did not again
put himself on his former rheumatism-
destroying hard-tack ration and be deliv-
ered. Не replied that he did not know
himself why he did not. Of course the
trouble is his appetite is master and his
system is clogged with débris. This
gentleman is absolutely reliable and his
experience as related may be implicitly
relied on.

15

MR. GEO. W. BRACKEN, OF PASSADENA, CAL.
“I gained this development by following the suggestions given in PHYSICAL CULTURE.”

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QUESTION

Q. My back is hollow; my shoulder
blades are prominent. What must I do
to remedy this ?

A. About the best exercise to remedy
this particular defect is to stand facing an
ordinary chest weight and bring the arms
outward as far as you can on a level with
the shoulders. Take this exercise at least
twice a day and continue untiltired. Of
course, other exercises bringing into play
the muscles of the chest and back will be
found advantageous.

Q. Iam 48. Have a slight rupture.
Rather corpulent. What exercise would
you advise ?

A. Under such conditions care should
be used not to take any exercise which
tends to adversely influence your trouble.
You can best judge of this by actual ex-
perience, taking the different exercises
that are not too violent, and avoiding
those, of course, that tend to force the
contents of the abdomen strongly against
the affected part. The reclining exer-
cises, lying on the back, will be found
beneficial in your condition. All very
violent exercise, such as heavy lifting and
fast running, should, of course, be avoided.

Q. I contemplate fasting to purify my
blood. Must I abstain entirely from food
or take something occasionally to prevent
sickness? Should I exercise during this
time ? {

A. During your fast would advise you
to abstain entirely from food of all char-
acter, though all the pure water which
you care to drink should be supplied. It
is easier to abstain totally from food than
to partially abstain, as to eat only a few
morsels when inclined to be hungry has a
tendency to excite the appetite, and it
becomes more difficult to abstain than
if. you had not eaten at all. I would ad-
vise you to take some light exercise that
is pleasurable, such as walking and the
like, during the time.

Q. Please tell me how to cure nervous
dyspepsia.

A. Adopt a one-meal-per-day diet.
Eat very slowly, masticating every morsel
of food until it actually becomes liquid

DEPARTMENT.

before swallowing. Take long walks, and
take up a system of physical culture for
strengthening the general system. If this
course is pursued assiduously, a cure will
be effected in every instauce.

Q. Ihavelumbago. What would you
advise me to do?

A. At least twice a day take the exer-
cise of bending forward as far as you can
and backward as far as you can, and from
one side to the other as far as you can
until tired. Take up a general system of
physical culture for strengthening all
parts of the body. If pain is especially
acute, upon retiring at night place a wet
cloth over the affected part, allowing it to
remain there until morning, covering it
with a dry towel.

Q. I am troubled with sweating. I
perspire as much in the winter as in the
summer. What is the remedy ?

A. Though the skin may by some
abnormal influence acquire a habit of
perspiring too freely, ordinarily the
trouble is of the opposite character. A
large amount of impurities is thrown off
through the pores of the skin, and it
is necessary that they remain active in
order to perform their office. If your
pores have become abnormally active, I
would suggest that you take cold baths
and an air bath daily. Also make use of
the friction brush. This, in connection
with an ordinary system for building up
the general physical vigor, should bring
about satisfactory results.

Q. What shall I do for a dislocated
shoulder ?

A. If it has been properly set, about
the only thing you can do is absolute rest
until the torn or strained ligaments have
healed; then, of course, you can begin to
use it mildly. The application of cold
wet cloths will be found beneficial.

Q.. Kindly inform me what to do with
a varicose vein.

A. The application of cold wet cloths
and water as cold as can be obtained will
be found beneficial, though in many cases
this trouble cannot be cured.

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By Bod:

49 Т has often been remarked

9# that the most effective
á way to explode a popular
delusion is to explain its
origin, and it might be
worth while to apply that
method of expurgation to those epidemics
of prudery, that would have been wholly
incomprehensible to the philosophers of
paganism and which the moralists of the
future will class with the strangest aber-
rations of the dark ages.

The ethics of Greece and Rome, and,
indeed, of all ancient Europe, were
founded on nature-worship, and panthe-
ism of some sort or other is at the bot-
tom of the primeval religions of the East;
but about eight hundred years before the
beginning of our chronological era the
mind of a brooding Hindoo evolved a
doctrine that has been justly defined as
a declaration of war against nature. He
proposed to solve the problem of existence
on the nihilistic plan and avoid the dis-
appointments of life by renouncing its
hopes.

The hope of earthly happiness, accord-
ing to the theory of Buddha Sakyamuri,
is a chimera, a phantom that lures us
from error to error through endless toils,
and robs even the grave of its peace, for
he who dies uncured of his delusion must
return to earth and continue the hopeless

ШОЕ GENESIS"ORSPRUDERY.

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Oswald, M. D.

chase in another life. Quietism—i. e.,
the annihilation .of desire—is the only
hope of emancipation, and that goal can
be reached only by total abstinence from
earthly enjoyments. 2

All worldly pleasures are curses in dis-
guise; life is a disease and death the only
eure. All secular knowledge is vain, the
great object of existence being the sup-
pression of our-natural desires.

Self affliction is the only rational pur-
suit. He who strives after final emanci-
pation must renounce his earthly posses-
sions, live on alms, dress in rags and ab-
stain from marriage. He must have no
fixed habitation; and must even avoid to
sleep twice under the same tree, lest an
undue affection for any earthly object
should hinder his spirit in the progress
of his deliverance from the vanities of
life !

Among the effete victims of Oriental
despotism that hideous insanity developed
the contagion of a moral plague, and in-
vaded the coastlands of the Mediterranean
about a thousand years after the founda-
tion of Rome.

An epidemic of anti-naturalism spread
over the Eden of Southern Europe. Men,
women and children renounced the world
and devoted themselves to a life of self-
torture. Convents sprang up, first in
Greece, then by thousands all over Italy,

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Spain and Southern France. The Olym-
pic festivals were suppressed; manly
pastimes were banished from the very
dreams of a world to come. The merry
gods had departed; Olympus became a
Golgotha, where sickly skinned and
roasted deities sneaked about mournfully,
nursing their wounds and chanting dole-
ful hymns. The worship of joy had be-
come a whining worship of sorrow.

ЧА CHAMPION OF RENUNCIATION.”

The champions of renunciation de-
spised the physical part of their nature.
They seemed to be almost ashamed that
they had bodies at all. With few excep-
tions, the founders of the monastic or-
ders vied in measures for the physical
degradation of their convent devotees.
Monks and nuns were starved, bled,
scourged and systematically sickened
with enfeebling drugs.

“A healthy mind in a healthy body,”
was the ideal of the Grecian philosopher.
A world-renouncing mind in a crushed
body was the ideal of the anti-naturalists.
Their sculptors and painters elaborated
representations of cadaverous saints, hol-
low-eyed devotees and ghastly self-tor-
turers. Fanatics marched from town to
town for the deliberate purpose of de-
stroying the masterpieces of Grecian art.
The models of manly strength and female
beauty had become odious to the enemies
of nature.

The crusade against the nude had en-
tered upon its aggressive phase. Beauty-
worship was denounced as a crime. “The
world, the devil and the flesh” were as-
sociated in sermons and prayers. It was
not long before the gods and heroes of
the Pagan pantheon were consigned to
pandemonium. Venus was degraded into
a tempting fiend.

“From me expect no homage more,

The devil, as you are,”

Knight Tannhauser is ungallant enough
to inform the Goddess of Love. And as
the love of earth culminates in the sexual
passion, anti-naturalism soon openly in-
culeated the merit of celibacy. Thou-
sands of devotees attempted to emulate
the saints who “neither marry nor are
given in marriage,” but, as usual, found
it easier to pervert than to suppress a
natural instinct. Clemens A. Alexandri-
orus, one of the few semi-rational leaders
of the patriotic era, gives an appalling ac-
count of the consequences of that war
against nature, and admits that name-
less aberrations of passion made it ex-
pedient to prohibit the very allusion to
sexual topics.

The total depravity dogma was a god-
send to mental and physical degeneracy.
Worn-out sensualists consoled themselves
with the hope of a better hereafter.
Cowards pleased themselves in the idea of
fulfilling the duty of meek submission to
injustice and the “powers that be."
Monastic drones denounced the worldli-
ness of industrial enterprises. Physical
indolence welcomed the discovery that
“bodily exercise profiteth but little."
Stall-fed hypocrites inveighed against the
secular temptations of science, and, in-
deed, soon pursued philosophers with
charges of black art.

But the favorite butt of slander-

PHYSICAL CULTURE 19

“FHE MODELS OF MANLY STRENGTH BECAME ODIOUS TO THE ENEMIES ОЕ\ NATURE. '

mongers was the manifestations of the
sexual passion. Malice soon discovered
the superior facilities for ruining an
enemy by calumnies of that sort, and
for nearly a thousand years the chronicles
of persecution teemed with the records
of what the philosopher Lessing aptly
calls “moral hits below the belt." Every
woman who rebelled against the yoke of
matrimonial slavery, every man who ven-
tured to question heresy dogmas, risked
a charge of sexual immorality. Impeach-
ment for heresy almost invariably in-
volved insinuation of illicit love. Be-
tween A.D. 1050 and 1500 some 3,000,-
000 women were burned at the stake for
alleged indulgences of criminal intercourse
with the enemy of mankind. When
Louis the First of France got stranded
on the shoal of unlucky financial specu-
lations, he conceived the idea of recoup-
ing his losses by confiscating the real es-
tate of the Knights Tempiar, and, of
course, proceeded to formulate charges
and specifications of sexual atrocities.

The test of the impeachment is at once
so revolting and so extravagantly absurd
that modern critics might mistake it for
a burlesque, but it answered its purpose;
the rage of the prurient rabble vented it-
self in howls of execration, and with the
vociferous approval of the assembled
mob, Robert Molay, a star-covered lion
of the crusades, was publicly burned at the
stake, together with scores of his valiant
companions.
The old warrior scorned spiritual con-

solations ;

“Call him not alone who dieth

Side by side with gallant men,”
and a hero for whom war had no terrors
and superstition no sting was laid low

by the never-failing trick of sexual
calumny.
An instinct, swift and sure, still

prompts envy to glut its malice by a re-
sort to the same dastard weapon. The
poisoned daggers of sexual slander
blighted the life of Lord Byron, of
Shelley, Tasso and Count Platen; they

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“MONASTIC DRONES DENOUNCED THE WORLDLI-
NESS OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES.”

were aimed at the throne of Frederick the
Great and the crown of the Poet-King
Goethe. They threaten every talent and
every form of superior merit; the charge
of obscenity is always the last resort of
rancorous impotence.

And these sensitive saints appear to
include truth among the secular vanities
which the pious are bound to despise.
“Worldliness was to be combated," says
Lecky in his review of mediaeval morals,
“so prophecies were forged and ceaseless
calumnies poured upon every adversary.
Generation after generation this tendency
became more general; it continued till the
very sense of truth and the very love of
truth seemed blotted out from the minds
of men.”

That lost love has apparently never
been recovered. The ostensible pretext of
an obscenity complaint is almost sure to
be a fiction, Examined at close range,

the zealot for public morality is found to
have personal grievances to redress. The
upturned. eves. and pious howls through
the nose mask, the leer of private malice,
the snarl of personal rancor. The solici-
tude about Ned Parnell’s morals con-
cealed a dread of his political influence.
The literary hirelings who went into
epileptic fits about the matrimonial mis-
conduct of Lord Byron, wanted a chance
for a kick at the author of Childe Harold.
The holy groans bewailing the cynicism
of King Frederick voiced the effects of
his keen sword. A few weeks ago a Penn-
sylvania saint, to advertise his contempt
for physical perfection, as compared with
the perfect submission of reason to
dogma, insinuated a charge of immorality
against a magazine that has done more
to promote the regeneration of the hu-
man race than any periodical publication
of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.

The unction-film upon his perceptive
faculties could not wholly conceal the
fact that by every test of true manhood
the publishers of that paper stood above
him as gods above a slimy reptile, but
for that very reason he could not afford
to miss a chance for promulgating his
superior “morality.”

“She has visited the male wards of
public hospitals,” petitioned Charles
Reade’s medical students, after finding
themselves eclipsed by the talents of a
female competitor; “she has ventured to
encounter the nude, undeterred by consid-
eration of female modesty, and that ought
to bar her privilege of contesting tne
first prize, or decent parents will refuse
to send their sons to this college. Im-
morality must be suppressed.”

Complaints about the inadequary of
city ordinanees against bathing school-
boys nearly always emanate from old
hags who see no other chance for estab-
lishing their private reputations.

The immaculate virgin of Omaha who
poked her parasol through Bougereau's
masterpiece, was ascertained to be a per-
sonal aspirant for distinction in pictorial
idyls and verdigris tinted landscapes.
The comments of the French master
artist might be worth knowing, and, al-
luding to certain attempts at picture
barometers (litmus paper affected by
the influence of atmospheric moisture).
one of his facetious countrymen observed

PHYSICAL CULTURE 21

that “American landscapes will hereafter

have to be painted in such a manner that -

the sportive nymphs appear in bathing
suits whenever a cloud comes upon
Anthony Comstock's brow."

It did not save the famous painting
that the exhibitors had placed it in a
screened. cabinet; the moral regulator
penetrated the veil of the sanctuary. It
is in vain that bathing youngsters retire
to the farthest outskirts of the city
limits, the grievance mongers will use
telescopes.

What is the remedy ?

*What can I do with those wretched

THIS May LOOK LIKE A PHYSICAL CULTURIST,
BUT—

lunatics?” the Empress Catherine asked
her friends after describing the fanati-
cism of the Skopzis, or sect of pious self-
mutilators.

*[mportez une bonne troupe des comé-
diens," suggested the philosopher Diderot
— try the effect of a good burlesque.”
And in the holy-groan-dom of America
alone the playwrights of the future will
find an inexhaustible mine of fun; but in
the meantime reformers the world over
should. combine to tear the mask from
the most contemptible of all shams and
establish the fact that prudery and de-
generation always go hand in hand,

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It’s ONLY REGGIE IN HIS WINTER OVERCOAT.

22 PHYSICAL CULTURE

NON-MEDICINAL REMEDIES.

WITH

Points oN HYDROTHERAPY, DIET, AND MASSAGE, IN CERTAIN DISEASES

ATTENDED WITH HIGH TEMPERATURE.

By Charles E. Page, M. D., Boston.

49T is a promising sign of the
times that more individuals
in the profession of medi-
cine are becoming some-
what skeptical as to the
virtues of even the most
vaunted of the potent drugs
in common use in the treatment of dis-
ease, than at any previous time in the his-
tory of medicine, and giving more thought
to the study and practice of more natural
methods.

“The history of medicine illustrates the

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fact that modern therapeutics only at- -

tains perfection when it approaches most
nearly to the teachings of Hippocrates,”
says Dr. Edwin W. Pile, Fellow of the
New York Academy of Medicine, in a re-
cent article. “In most cases of sickness
had simple water been administered, and
those natural means which automatically
operate to maintain health been employed,
the sick would have been benefited and
the doctors’ reputation improved." Here-
in may be found, in great measure, the
secret of the success of many empirics ;
these men having followed more nearly
than have the grand army of regulars the
teachings of the ‘Father of Medicine. ”

In an address before the Reading
Pathological Society (Lancet, January 6,
1900), on “Uric Acid,” J. E. Goodhart,
M. D., LL. D., consulting physician to
Guy’s Hospital, says: “For myself, I can-
not but think that had it not been for our
eagerness to get hold of something to
‘treat,’ the uric acid theory that is dom-
inant at the present time would never
have become the fetish that it has.

“One of the weaknesses of our profes-
sion is this, that we incline to do too
much; and in so doing overtreat disease.
Do not you find, you, my hearers, who
have come to middle age and passed it,
that one of the chief pleasures of your
position is that of having a firmer con-
viction of the self-righting power of the

human body? Let it alone; give it time,
rest, freedom, fresh air. It must be so;
for I hear it said on all sides of the ripe
and mellow go-aheads of but a few years
ago, by their juniors, the go-aheads of
to-day, how much less active they are than
they were when they began to make their
names. Yes, they now wait and watch."

But still, as it seems to the present
writer, this savors too much of the .faith
cure to be altogether soothing to the mind
of the perplexed student, however desir-
ous he may be to mend his ways. Of
course, it is vastly better, when in doubt,
to do nothing than to do things that are
harmful; but in all the length of Dr. Good-
hart's address there was scarcely a hint as
to physiological treatment for disease.
Throughout the profession, regular, em-
piric, or what not, there is a proneness to
“harp on one string,” so to say; that is, to
treat disease with drugs alone (too com-
mon a practice with the regular profes-
sion); with hydrotherapy alone (the
habit of many empirics) ; with massage
alone (now posing as osteopathy) ; with
faith in vis medicatrix nature alone, the
scheme of many in the regular profes-
sion who have lost confidence in the vir-
tues of drugs.

The prince of physicians is he who is
expert in all of these potent measures for
aiding the disordered organism in its ef-
forts to regain that just balance which we
term health. Were I to be shut up to a
choice of one only method out of all thos
above named, I would assuredly and with-
out hesitation adopt hydrotherapy in the
treatment of all diseases, chronic or acute;
this would be my first choice ; drugs, alone,
my last.

It is a glaring, if not a criminal, fault
of our medical schools, that except in the
most superficial way, nothing is done in
the way of teaching hydrotherapy or mas-
sage. Hydrotherapy and the medical
schools is a question which of late has ex-

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ercised the minds of a few of our leading
medical men. The editor of the Medical
News recently discussed this topic at con-
siderable length and most intelligently.
The views of several medical men were
quoted, the text being the essay of Prof.
Putnam, of Harvard University, on
“Hydrotherapy : Its Scientific Basis." In
the discussion following the reading of
Prof. Putnam’s paper, Dr. Coggeshall in-
sisted that “it is disgraceful that students
should be allowed to graduate from our
medical colleges with practically no sys-
tematic teaching in regard to non-medici-
nal therapeutics;" and Dr. Rogers re-
marked jocosely, that “medical colleges
ought to cease graduating men who don’t
know a Scotch douche from a hot Scotch !”
Kussmaul was quoted as follows: “Of
hydrotherapy the young physician knows
almost nothing. Here is a great gap in
the education of our physicians; here is
the real cause of-his inability to cope with
the empiric for the favor of the public!”
And yet we are fond of sneering at the
empiric’s work, when we should be quick
to recognize its value and hasten to profit
by it. Another pregnant sentiment, that
of Prof. Crede, of Leipzig: “If physicians
were better versed in these branches [hy-
drotherapy, massage, etc.], the field of
operation of many quacks would be great-
ly curtailed.” That is to say, if we were
as well informed as the empirics we would
do as good work and drive them from the
field; for the quack is ‘tremendously
handicapped in many ways. “The laity
generally require their doctors to be
labeled ‘safe’ ” (that is, regular), says the
British Medical Journal for January 13,
1900, in an editorial on “Information vs.
Education.” The Journal justifies the
criticism that has been made, that at the
end of five years medical students, having
gained their diplomas through cramming,
go out as assistants, having been taught
the latest pathological theories, but no
common sense;* that they are stuffed
with knowledge, but cannot learn. Their
real training does not begin till they are

*The late Prof. John Kirk, of Edinburgh, used
to say of medical students, that they entered college
with plenty of common sense, and departed with it
pretty much **educated" out of them: and that it
took the average bright lad half a lifetime to un-
learn the mistaken teachings of the medical schools,
while the ordinary ones never recovered,

delivered from their teachers and thrown
upon their own resources.

But does this mean the banishment of
drugs from our therapeutics? It cer-
tainly is the conviction of many of the
foremost medical men of our day, that as
drugs are employed by the great propor-
tion of medical men, practically, as an
exclusive means in the treatment of dis-
ease, they do vastly more harm than good.

Let us consider some of the ways in
which certain drugs injure the prospects
of recovery: Take, for example, a typhoid
fever patient, who, in spite of lack of ap-
petite, in face, even, of a loathing for
food, and whose tongue is heavily coated,
clearly indicating a stomach devoid of
gastric juice, and an utter impossibility
of food substances being dissolved, pre-
served and fitted for intestinal digestion ;
intestines, indeed, loaded with fermenting
or putrescent aliments—a patient in this
deplorable state, we will say, becomes a
victim to still further forced feeding till
his temperature is forced up to what is
considered a dangerous point. In such a
case the average physician is apt to give
heavy doses of, let us say, antipyrine,
which may cause a sudden drop of the
temperature to near, possibly below, the
normal. By this means a heavy blow has
been struck at the vitality of the patient,
a blow at the very force which it is our
first duty to exalt in every possible way.
While it is doubtless safe to say, that by
means of early therapeutic fasting, the
profuse drinking of fresh, cool water for
a few days, the condition above dscribed
would have been avoided; still the physi-
cian may be called to a patient already
thus diseased; something surely needs to
be done in the way of active treatment.

A case of this kind came under my care
not long ago. The patient, a man of
about thirty years of age, had been con-
stantly fed with milk, beef tea, switched
eggs, etc., and well drugged, from day to
day, though the food had been taken un-
der protest. His temperature was 10414
F. There was some delirium, great
distention of the bowels, and severe pain.
I at once gave him the benefit of a Brand
bath, in water at 67 F., for fifteen min-
utes, with active friction of the skin dur-
ing every moment he was in the water;
and several pitcherfuls of cool water were
poured over his head meanwhile.

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Directly after returning the patient to
bed, without drying the skin, or returning
the nightgown, the feet and legs were
well manipulated by a skilled masseur
with his hands moistened with hot olive
oil, tiil the extremities glowed with
warmth. The bath completely restored
the patient from his delirium, and he
went off for a restful sleep of an hour.
On waking his temperature was found
to be 102%. From this time I em-
ployed the damp bandage (two-ply
coarse linen towel, wrung tightly from
ice water, with two-ply same dry out-
side) as the only hydrotherapeutie pro-
cedure, except so far as cooling the head
with cold compress to the fullest soothing
degree, whenever it was required for the
patient’s comfort.

A full cool water enema brought away a
vesselful of milk curds and all manner of
putrescent food substances, to his great
comfort; directly the skin became moist,
and he dropped off quietly into a sleep
lasting a couple of hours, from which he
awoke refreshed. He had from this time
on for the next ten days what I regarded
the true “physiological diet” in fevers,
viz., water, fresh, soft and cool—not ice
water. Occasionally he was given moder-
ately hot water, and altogether he took
from three to five pints of water every
twenty-four hours. The fluidity of the
blood was thus made to approach the nor-
mal point; the urine, before scant and
high-colored, became more profuse and
natural in complexion; sordes disap-
peared ; tongue began to clean, and he was
very shortly a “comfortably sick” man,
with small need of much attention from
any one.

Liberal portions of fresh water was all
the medicament employed, and seemed to
work entirely to my satisfaction; the pa-
tient’s temperature kept down near 101
F., a mild fever which might properly be
considered a normal adjustment to the
bodily condition. He went on without a
skip from convalescence to perfect health.
In accordance with my instructions, that
“when he thought he could take a piece
of stale Graham bread for ‘pie’? he might
try it,” about the eleventh day he began

eating. He was allowed a moderate por-
tion of this bread twice a day for a couple
of days *dry on the tongue;" that is, he
chewed every mouthful till it was semi-
fluid, with saliva alone. Water was
given ad lib., whenever the stomach was
empty. Shortly after this he was allowed
moderate portions of stewed prunes as
dessert ; but the greatest caution was taken
to prevent overfeeding. No tonics to
stimulate appetency; no tempting dishes
were placed before him or talked about,
and the results fully justified the entire
management of the case.

During the present winter I have had
a number of cases of **grip," and I have
come to regard this disease as one of
flannels and food ; of overclothing, chiefly.
Of course, overfeeding is a universal
habit. During ‘‘unseasonably warm
weather?" in winter, or, in fact, in-
doors at any season, the wearing of
heavy inner and outer clothing is in
the highest degree unhygienic. In all
my cases this winter I have stopped all
feeding till convalescence was established,
giving moderate doses of hot water, with
plenty of cool water, usually aborting the
disease in from three to six days. I em-
ploy over the entire chest the cold com-
press freely for any indication of pneumo-
nia. In a number of cases I have em-
ployed as a beginning of the treatment the
hot foot and leg bath to the point of pro-
voking a full sweat, as follows: Have the
patient's feet and legs well up the calves in
water at about 100 F., having some por-
tion removed and replaced with boiling
water from time to time, making the water
a little hotter and hotter, as the patient can
bear it without discomfort. In thirty to
forty minutes he is in a profuse sweat;
then he is sponged all over with dilute
acetie acid (one to sixteen) and put to bed.
He is sufficiently, but not over, wrapped,
and he is ordered to have his sleeping-room
windows well open throughout the night.
In all these cases, too, it is found that
well-applied massage is both soothing and
curative. Nothing wil more speedily
drive away all semblance of the shivery,
shaky, disagreeable feeling so common in
these cases.

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SAMMY WILBROW’S SCARE.
By W. Osborne.

ma AMMY WILBROW had al-
ways believed in picking
up any loose knowledge
that came his way.

He had learned the trade
of a machinist, but had
never been entirely satisfied with being
a first-class workman.

Being small, and not very strong, he
had very early in his
career found it nec-
essary to make his
mind do for him what
his body could not,
and so got into the
habit of learning
something from. all
sorts of people in
various callings out-
side of his own trade.
It soon came about
that he was looked
upon to do anything
out of the usual or-
der that came along,
and was often sent
out on jobs when ma-
chinery was out of
order or new machin-
ery being put in place,
and he would do boil-
ermaking, black-
smithing, tinsmithing, drive team, or help
a farmer to milk, all as a part of the day’s
work.

When the boys got some boxing gloves
and went to having fun during noon hour,
Sammy at once took a deep interest. He
was nearly forty years old, weighed about
one hundred and ten pounds, hadn't been
in a fight sihce he was ten years old, and
never expected to be, had never seen any
one with boxing gloves on before, but
here was a new mine of knowledge to him.

T'he boys, seeing his interest, began in-
viting him to put on the gloves with
them, and they would slap him around
while he patiently tried some of the strokes
and dodgings he saw the boys doing with
each other. This was great fun for the
boys and men who were looking on.

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“Sammy.”

Sammy finally got so he could take a
good slap without its preventing him from
seeing what the other fellow was doing,
and taking advantage of any opening,
and the boys began to find him more than
amatch. He seemed to know all the
tricks of all of them, and his judgment
of how and when to move to block or
dodge an opponent was excellent.

The firm received
an order for a lot of
new machinery to go
into a mill in one of
the Western States
and Sammy was sent
along to erect it and
start things going
smoothly. He had
never been so far west
before and the sights
filled him with won-
der. The young men
at theboarding house,
seeing he was a ten-
derfoot, began telling
wonderful stories
about the rough peo-
ple in the neighbor-
hood, and finally,
about the time his job
' was done, decided to

givehima grand send-
off when he left.

There were four of them engaged in it.
Tom was a big, good-natured fellow al-
ways ready forfun. Frank was his boon
companion, ready to share in anything.
George was an admirer of the first two
and always ready to follow when they
led. Ben was the moving spirit in the
matter, not a bad fellow generally, a lit-
tle reckless, perhaps, but, unfortunately,
a little given to drink. He had first
thought of it, and together they had
planned to rig up as cowboys and give
Sammy a good scare on the evening he
was to leave for home. Make him think
he just escaped with his life! as Ben
put it.

Everything had been finished at the
mill. His tool box and valise had been

26 PHYSICAL CULTURE

checked and Sammy was walking up and
down, waiting for the train, when four
cowboys with leather trousers, broad-
brimmed hats, revolver and knife in each
belt and great rattling spurs rode up,

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four several times a day, their dress and
a little brown color on their faces so
changed them that he never dreamed of
having seen them before, and promptly
held both hands up.

“THIS WAS GREAT FUN FOR THE BOYS AND MEN WHO WERE LOOKING ON."

jumped off with a yell, and with drawn
revolvers surrounded Sammy with orders
of “hands up.”

To say he was startled is putting it
mildly. Although he had been seeing all

** He's the fellow. Let’s hang
him. . . . Tie him to a pony and
set it loose. Thinks cowboys
don’t amount to anything, does he?" were
some of the shouts that Sammy heard

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from his captors; and away down the track
could be heard the whistle of the coming
train.

** You dance," said Ben, and Sammy
began a hopping around that set the spec-
tators almost into convulsions.

To keep up appearances Tom and Frank
would turn toward the crowd and order
them back, although most of them were
in the secret.

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the head is hard work, and Sammy's gradu-

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ticed that Ben appeared to have been drink-
ing, while the others were sober.
Tripping himself on his own feet he
fell toward Ben. With a quick movement
of his left arm he threw Ben’s hand with
the revolver in it up, while his right fist
struck Ben in the solar plexus, causing
him to drop the revolver and double up.
A sweep of the foot across George’s shins
and a vigorous shove sent him down ina
heap. Tom had been looking at the train
while Frank had been holding back the

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ally dropped lower; also in jumping about
he chanced to see that Tom’s revolver was
not fully loaded, and it flashed on him
that he had heard something familiar in
the voices. He threw in a couple of
extra contortions to keep up the fun while
he did some quick thinking. The revol-
vers were not held as if business was
meant and all four were off guard, so to
speak, and the crowd was in the road if
any shooting was intended. These things
Sammy saw as the train came to a stop.
That train only stopped about a minute
and he decided to go on it. Не had no-

crowd, and both were taken by surprise.
Frank got a stiff punch of the elbow at
short range just on the ribs and a shove
and trip that took his breath and landed
him on top of George.

Tom turned and made a rush forward,
but was met by Sammy with a low duck
that raised him from his feet and sent him
flying over Sammy's head and landed him
plump on top of Frank and George.

Ben, somewhat under the influence of
drink, had been infuriated by the treat-
ment he had received, and drawing his
knife made a rush at Sammy, who sprang

28 PHYSICAL
forward as if to meet him, then drew back
as Ben made a vicious swing with the knife.

Missing his blow and a hard swing from
Sammy’s left arm landing just back of his
ear sent him down in a heap on his face,
the knife flying from his hand.

The train had begun to pull out and
Sammy had just time to pick up the knife
and a revolver and swing on the rear end
of the last car.

The whole affair had taken less time
than the writing, and as the train went
its way Sammy tried to think it all over.

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He felt rather uneasy until well out of
the State and on his way home.

A short time after arriving at home he
received a box and a letter through the
firm he worked for.

The box contained a complete cowboy's
outfit and the letter explained the whole
joke, and in it the statement that the
joke had rather been on them than him.

Now Sammy thinks more than ever
that all sorts of knowledge comes in play
at some time, and is worth having if it
just comes in your way to get it.

THE GENIUS —“ WHY ON EARTH DO NICE-LOOKING, INTELLIGENT GIRLS PREFER A GREAT, BIG,
MUSCULAR BRUTE LIKE THAT TO AN INTELLIGENT GENIUS LIKE ME?"

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ARMANDO MANRARA.

Mr. Manrara writes: I was born in New York City in 1878 and until I attained
the age of 12 was looked upon as delicate. My fondness for exercise prompted me
to devote a few hours а day to developing myself and thereby improve my health.
In 1890 I entered the Columbia Grammar School, and at that place gave an hour each
day to exercising under the instruction of a director. The great improvement which
took place in a very short while astonished my friends and teacher immensely. The
improvement continued steadily and very soon my small frame was covered with
muscle. In 1898 I became interested in wrestling and gave my attention to that
branch of athletics. In the spring of that year I entered the 145-Ib. championship of
the New York Athletic Club and was fortunate enough to winit. I weighed 134 lbs.
at the time. My measurements are as follows: Height, 5 ft. 5 in.; neck, 16 in.;
chest (normal), 39 in. ; chest (inflated), 42 in. ; biceps, 15 in. ; waist, 30 in. ; calf, 15 in,

30 PHYSICAL CULTURE

THE NEW CENTURY.
By J. R. Stevenson,

HEnewcentury is pretty well
under way, with the im-
petus given in the conclud-
ing years of the old. Itisa

* good opportunity to indulge

in a little philosophical

thinking about ourselves and the world, as
we find it in the dawn of this great new
century.

We believe in speaking the truth about
matters. We simply won't join in with
the self complacent ignoramuses who
have been shouting aloud their misleading
declaration that the people of this genera-
tion are stronger, longer lived, happier
than those of preceding generations. The
man who makes such a statement is basing
his authority merely on his own assump-
tion—nothing more. In reading a his-
tory, a history universal, recently issued,
I was astonished at the statement made by
che author to the effect that the people of
to-day are longer lived and stronger than
were those of ancient days. Right there
that author lost my confidence. If his his-
torical judgment is as poor as his knowl-
edge of anthropology, he is worthless as a
relator of the events of man's occupancy
of the earth.

But, we are in a new century. We are
wont to boast of its achievements—long
thread-like strands of wire, that magically
bear thought to the very ends of the earth ;
intricate, smoking fabrications of steel
that swim the waters, run swiftly over the
earth or soar in the air; hundreds of
wonders of skill, of novelties, of devices
for the encouragement ofidlenessand vice.
But what else? Ате any new songs being
sung worth listening to? Any new phil-
osophers teaching in the world, whose
teachings are worth attention? Has hap-
piness been brought any nearer to the
masses, pain to any extent banished;
weakness subdued? Think it over, ye
poor, puny little weaklings who have been
singing peaens of praise over the achieve-
ments of the new century and the one just
past,

Such a strain of reasoning and of writ-
ing is sure to arouse that good old moss-
backed individual who cries “pessimist !”
whenever an unpleasant truth is dinned in
his ears. He will rise up right here, with
his little phrase, his stock in trade of
argument. Well, let him. We have a
few things to exhibit to him and his ilk,
who, like the historian cited above, believe
that man—the human animal—divinely
gifted with reasoning power, has much ad-
vanced since he carried a stone hammer
and lived in a cave.

Here in New York two months ago
there was a smallpox scare. One of those
senseless panics instituted by foolish
newspaper proprietors, who for the sake of
a few extra pennies that may be obtained
from the sale of an extra edition, would
wreck the commonwealth. With that
scare came to light the frightful practice
of vaccination. Now, my little man with
the cry of “pessimist,” just consider the
fruits of this relic of ancient ignorance.
Here in the city there were several cases

‘of lock-jaw, traceable directly to the intro-

duction of vaccine into the blood of the
victims, which resulted fatally. The vac-
cinators went scott free, although they
were plainly, in the letter and intent of
the law, murderers. There were hundreds,
nay, perhaps thousands, made seriously
ill, their blood poisoned to their lasting
detriment, and all because the medical
science of this new, latest and wisest cen-
tury still believes in and advocates the sys-
tem of injecting the virus of cow-pox into
the blood of healthy men and women, in
the belief that it will act as a bar to future
attacks of smallpox. Such an hypothesis
is ridiculous, even if experience had not
demonstrated that the vaccinated had
smallpox just as often as the unvacci-
nated.

Smallpox is a filth disease. With clean
blood you are immune. The vaccinators
have discovered that; for their cow-pox
virus, even though forced into the blood

PHYSICAL CULTURE 31

itself, is thrown off without detriment by
the healthy, and those who throw it off—
on whom the vaccination does not “take” —
never have smallpox! What a spectacle
for the philosopher this was in the begin-
ning of our new century. Medical men,
armed with the authority of the law, sent
out through all the schools, factories,
households, with license to poison the
young, the innocent. Nature of course
preserves her strong, but the weak were
sought out, the lambs sacrificed, their
poor, impoverished blood further vitiated
with the loathsome slime drawn from the
diseased udder of a cow, all under sanc-
tion of the law, and the blind, unsubstan-
tiated theory that such a practice prevents
smallpox epidemics. As a matter of fact,
the few cases of smallpox discovered were
isolated, and the premises where they
originated were cleansed and disinfected,
and the danger of an epidemic was over.

Just one other lesson I desire to call to
the attention of our bright and hopeful
optimist before I close this article. Its
scenes are laid in the confines of an insti-
tution devoted to doctor-making. One of
those legalized, chartered institutions of
science, where a callow youth is admitted
at 17, 18 or 20 years of age, and after a
course of two to four years’ study is sent
forth a licensed physician and “scientist,”
to practice upon the unwary weak—the
class that should really have the help and
support of the strong. The object lesson
is valuable, inasmuch as it throws a ray of
light directly into. the very germinal state
of doctorhood. |

I refer to the appalling revelations re-
specting the medical and nurse staffs of
Bellevue Hospital, made public through
the death of a patient in that institution
and the subsequent arraignment of three
nurses and future physicians on a charge
of homicide. It was shown that the men
who were permitted to attach themselves
to that institution in the capacity of
nurses or internes were in the habit of
treating patients with gross neglect; that
they maltreated them physically, injected
poisonous sleeping potions against the
patient’s will, when they desired to be re-
lieved of the duty of attending him. To
the whole country this revelation came as
a sickening shock.

I have known something about the
working of the medical and nurse systems
of more than one New York hospital dur-
ing the past seven or eight years. I have
had opportunity to see something of the
regime that is maintained within the in-
stitutions themselves, which have been es-
tablished through government aid, or by
the beneficience of some philanthropist,
and I am stating a fact when I say that if
the dead and gone benefactor who assisted
in endowing one of these places could see
the disgraceful wickedness, the positive
criminality in respect to the sick, the
lame, the halt and the blind, who are
brought under the control of those who
have been placed in direct charge, he
would turn in his grave. Bellevue is not
the only charitable institution where there
are outrageous evils to be remedied.
There are others. It would be well for
the people of the city of New York, while
they are at it, to demand an account of
stewardship of several big political
physicians—men who have “practiced”
their profession so well that they have ob-
tained appointments to various executive
positions in connections with charity hos-
pitals, asylums, ete. These men have
clearly demonstrated more than once that
medicine to them is business; that it is a
money getter, and let me tell you, they
never fail to make it work. It is shocking
to read of the degenerate trio of young
students who extorted money from pa-
tients in the alcoholic ward at Bellevue;
but there are other ways in which the poor
and siek—a combination that ought to
excite the pity of a dog, even as Lazarus
did with the dogs about the rich man's
door—are abused, maltreated, and poison-
ed by these sharks that the law licenses
to treat the ill, the afflicted, the weak
that would make your blood boil with in-
dignation if you knew the facts.

Yes, it is a new century we are entering
upon. We have a grand. Republic, and
so-called free institutions and a great
many things to be thankful for. But the
race is weak— weaker than the primal
man who lived in the open air, a life of
hardy adventure; and we have some medi-
cal practices that would bring the blush of
shame to the cheek of a barbarian of the
dark ages. "Think it over.

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glaring inconsistencies ever committed by ASTOUNDING INCON-
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of diseases is diametrically opposed to such conclusions.

No medical man, no scientist or student, familiar with the subject will deny the
truth of the following: STRENGTH, TO BE DEVELOPED, MUST BE
USED. STRENGTH, TO BE RETAINED, MUST BE USED.

Every law in Nature, evesy .aci that has been gleaned by the study of life from
its lowest to its highest forms, has added fact upon fact to prove the absolute in-
controvertibility of these c clusions. There is not a medical man with a brain
large enough to prompt him to “come in out of the rain” who will not admit their
truth. They stand out clear and plain and cannot be gainsaid.

And notwithstanding the fact that medical men as a body admit the truth of
these conclusions, in their professional work they are absolutely ignored, or else
given only indifferent attention.

A man or woman visits a medical practitioner—we will suppose the prospective
patient is suffering from general weakness. “I feel weak and run down,” he or she
may say.

What is the physician’s first remark in nine cases out of ten? “Why, you
need a tonic. I will have to give you some iron,” etc., etc.

Tonic, indeed!

What, in Heaven’s name, is there in a tonic to create strength when it remains
unused?

Does the physician ever remark that your strength has decreased because you
have never used that strength? Does he ever call your attention to the absolute
necessity of using strength in order to increase ot even retain strength?

Why does he not advise his patient as to these important facts? He knows
they are true, if he is not an idiot. He cannot deny them; but still he usually
absolutely ignores them.

The writer cannot answer these questions. They are beyond him. Ifa man
should come to him suffering, even fainting for food, his inclination would be to
offer food, even without pay, but when a sufferer comes and tenders payment for his
food, he should claim this food as a right. The poor weakened sufferers who appeal
to the ordinary physician for relief are treated like the man who asked for bread
and received а stone. They ask for strength, or the secret of regaining it, and they
receive a tonic. They ask for health, or plain directions by which it may be secured,
and they receive a Latin prescription!

When will people learn that every digestive, every vital function is a muscular
process—that it is carried on by the strength of muscles? Therefore whenever the

34 PHYSICAL CULTURE

voluntary muscular system is given regular use, they demand a greater supply of
the muscle-making elements, and the increase of the supply of these valuable
elements add strength to every organ and function of the body. The muscles that
surround the stomach grow stronger, and their work in churning and squeezing the
food is carried on more thoroughly, and all along the alimentary canal the invol-
untary muscular processes are strengthened.

It is also well to remember that all the tmportant flutds of the body—the saliva,
gastric juice, bile, pancreatic and intestinal juices—are furnished by the same food
elements that feed the muscles. Therefore the regular use of the voluntary muscles
in increasing the demand for these strength-giving elements enables the blood to
greatly increase the dissolving and digesting power of these important fluids. This
readily explains the almost immediate benefictal-effects of exercise on digestive
ailments.

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had reasons for silence upon this important subject.
It has been treated at great length by the numerous IN REFERENCE
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Numerous readers have recently written me inquiring as to the benefit of this
recreation as an exercise.

There is no question as to its advantages under proper conditions. It is one
of the most exhilarating and health-producing exercises if not overdone and if the
body is held in erect position. It takes one out of doors in the pure air, and the lungs,
the great purifying organs of the body, are greatly accelerated in their important
processes.

Now as the trees begin to bud into life, and when all nature smiles, do not
forget that it is your imperative duty to enjoy this to the fullest extent.

It is the time for golfing, cycling, horseback riding and long pleasurable walks,
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Use your bicycle at every opportunity, but be sure to use a little common sense
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CHAPTER I. Dangers of vaccination— Vaccination spreads
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STRENGTH [ POM FATING BERNARR MACFADDEN

How and What to Eat and Drink to Develop Suppleness, Strength
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You spend part of every dayin eating.
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I~ Appetite. The great value of normal appe-
tite. Crimes against the stomach committed ny “ duty eaters.”
Appetite only guide. How to acquire a normal appetite.

CHAPTER ll—Mastication, Digestion begins in the mouth
Enormous importance of proper mastication. The digestion of
food greatly influenced by gustatory enjoyment. Necessity for
prolonging as much as possible this enjoyment.

CHAPTER III—Process of Digestion. Brief description
of this, with illustration. How nourishment is absorbed.

CHAPTER IV—Air, Airafood. Erroneous idea of draughts
&nd colds. How colds can easily be cured.

CHAPTER V—Three-Meal Plan. This usual method of
es discussed. How three meals can be eaten daily without

njary.

HAPTER VI-Two-Meal Plan. Why this method is usu-
ally the best. Some personal experience. How the author de-
feated шоп wrestlers by Merlo Чыры from diet.

CHAPTER Vll -One-Meal Plan. is abstemious method
of eating discussed. Its great advantage in diseased conditions.

CHAPTER VIII— Water. The necessity of pure water.
жнт as secured in city and country. Distilled and filtered
water.

CHAPTER IX—Meat, or Mixed Diet. Meat builds im-
mediate strength, but Tessens endurance, Experiments with
meat diet in training for hard wrestling contests. A diet solely
of meat condemned.

CHAPTER X—Vegetarian Diet. Advantages of this diet
discussed from an unprejudiced standpoint. Produces better
quality of blood.

CHAPTER XI—Raw Diet. Sounds well in BCA Much
to be learned about it. EZ EAE of Agricuitural Depart-
ment Proving that raw food furnishes more nourishment than
cooked.

CHAPTER XII—Cooking of Foods. Most foods cooked
too much. Soft, over-cooked foods cause deficient mastication,
ruin health and cause teeth to decay. Other common errors
in cooking.

CHAPTER XIII—H ealth Foods. Some sensible remarks
about so-called health foods. Grains as furnished by Nature
best health foods. ]

CHAPTER XIV—Food and Occupation. Necessity for
supplying food needed to furnish the energy in various occupa-
tions. Brain-worker's needs. The athlete and manual worker.

CHAPTER XV—Food and Temperature. Needs of the
body vary with the temperature. Serious results from stimu-
lating appetite in summer.

CHAPTER XVl—Over-eating. Far worse evil than the
alcohol curse. Appetite for stimuiants often produced by over-
eating. Where alcohol may 10805 be used to advantage.

CHAPTER XVII—Alcohelic Liquors. Excites false feel-
ing of strength. Claim thatthey increase digestive strength con-
sidered. Alcohol is nota food. Some remarkable experiments
cited proving its destructive effects under all conditions.

CHAPTER XVIII— Drinking at Meals. This practice

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Hot drinks injurious.

CHAPTER XIX—Ice Water. Seriously iujures stomach.
How water may be cooled without ice. Well water proper
temperature

CHAPTER XX—Coffee and Tea. Nothing but stimulants.

Often cause as much injury as alcohol. No normal taste can
commend either

CHAPTER XXI—White Bread Curse. This humbug
"staff of life" discussed. Its destructive effects on health
and strength. Actualexperiment proving its terrible deficiency
as x food.

CHAPTER XXII—Elements of Foods, Body composed
of various chemical elements. Location and process of taste.
Experiments showing that foods lacking in certain elements
will not prevent starvation

CHAPTER XXIII—Muscle-making Elemen:s, Great
importance of plentiful supply of these elements. Furnish tis-
sues of muscles and brain and digestive juices. Foods that are
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CHAPTER XXIV Fattening Elements. Force-produc-
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proportion of nourishing elements they contain. Concluding
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